Our Ancestors

[kerryb]

Gadget

Is the dog looking for an escape route?

A wonderful photo, they certainly look like you wouldn't mess with them.

Kerry

[KarenM]

Kerry, with a hand like that wrapped around you, I don't think you could get away.

Great picture Gadget.

Clara you look so sweet, I wish little girls still dressed like little girls now, it's such a shame. 

Here's one of my gr-gr-grandmother, Francis Heffernan and my grandmother and her brother.  They are in front of the house were I grew up as well, well, I lived in the house beside my grandmother, but spent every waking moment at her house, she made the best poached eggs LOL  The trees are gone now, my sister still lives in the house beside it.

[Elliebob]

That's amazing Karen to still have connections with a home over so many years.  My family all seem to have been fairly nomadic.  They had mostly moved house between each census.

Ellen

[Mobo]

 

You're all so lucky to have so many lovely old family photos !

 

[kerryb]

Ditto Mobo, I'm feeling very jealous!!!

Kerry

[Gadget]

So who's that handsome young chap that's pushed out your old couple, Kerry?

Kerry, it is you. I can't take all this change - you and Clara. I might have to change my poppy.

Gadget

Oh Isee it's granddad

[kerryb]

Thought it was time for a change and that picture reminds me never to make assumptions about someone based on other people's opinions.

In other words my mum and my granddad never got on, he was a bit of an old moaner but hey he was old.  Therefore we never really got the chance to know him. 

My brother regrets that because he is now obsessed (not sure if that is the right word) with WW2, has an army truck and gun carriage and goes to Belgium and France on DDay etc.  At Granddads funeral we discovered all this really interesting stuff about his army record that my brother wishes he known about while he was alive.  He died in 1995.

When I see this photo I see a very different person to the old man I knew.  And yes he was handsome.

Kerry

[pentio]

Gadget

I suppose it was a rather posh wedding when you think how long ago it was ......it was this one photo that stirred my interest in all of this.

love the photo of Alexander and his wife........looks like a no nonsence sort of man.

Karen

what a lovely photo of your gr..gr.. grandmother and children..... its nice that your sister still lives in the house beside it....must bring back fond memories when you visit......wish our wee house was still there.

pentio.

[KarenM]

Pentio

Thanks, it's kindof bitter sweet when I go to my sister's, the house was recently sold again and they were doing renovations and found some very old coins in the wall, we I'm 99% positive they would have been my families since they had the house since 1895.  But, it's also hard going home to, cause I see what she has done with my own room, and I just cringe    My poor dad and all the work he put into the landscaping and her dogs just destroy it 

This is my gr-gr-gr grandmother Anna Maria Reinhart who was born in German c1823.  She died in October 1893.

Karen